This scrap was found stuck underneath the leather cover of the penholder compartment in a writing case with the initials ‘CRD’ on the lid and with a plaque inscribed: ‘Necessaire de voyage of Mr. C. Darwin Presented to The Shropshire and North Wales Natural History and Antiquarian Society’. The date range is conjectured from the fact that CD was elected a member of the society in 1840 (Correspondence vol. 2, letter to W. A. Leighton, 1 December 1840), and the society merged with the Shropshire Archaeological Society to become the Shropshire Archaeological and Natural History Society in 1877 (Transactions of the Shropshire Archæological and Natural History Society 1 (1878): x). The recipient is conjectured from the fact that Leighton was honorary secretary and curator of the society and a schoolfriend of CD’s.